I decided to start playing Sims 3 again last night and picked up the Showtime expansions. I backed up my old game saves and transferred them over to the new computer I was planning on playing on.

After launching the game, I brought up the Download Dashboard in-game to re-install the purchased items I bought through the Sims 3 store. Each item showed a check mark next it saying that it was installed to the game. I went to start a new game and the two worlds I had through the sims 3 store (Hidden Springs, Riverview) weren't there.

I loaded one of my saved games and went into Buy Mode and all the objects I bought through the sims 3 store were also missing. I exited the game and re-launched it going through downloading all my bought items again and they still aren't showing up.

I've tried everything I could think of: Uninstalling and re-installing the game, deleting all my downloads and re-downloading them, backing up any Mods I had and deleting them from the game location on my computer and still nothing.

Any CC I have will work, but the items I bought through the Official Sims 3 store isn't showing up/installing to the game.

Is there any way to fix this?

P.S. I did update everything that needed to be updated (game/launcher/etc). Sims 3 games I own are: sims 3 Base Game, Fast lane, High End Loft, Ambitions, World Adventures, Late Night, showtime. All are up to date.

ChelleB24 wrote:I decided to start playing Sims 3 again last night and picked up the Showtime expansions. I backed up my old game saves and transferred them over to the new computer I was planning on playing on.

After launching the game, I brought up the Download Dashboard in-game to re-install the purchased items I bought through the Sims 3 store. Each item showed a check mark next it saying that it was installed to the game. I went to start a new game and the two worlds I had through the sims 3 store (Hidden Springs, Riverview) weren't there.

I loaded one of my saved games and went into Buy Mode and all the objects I bought through the sims 3 store were also missing. I exited the game and re-launched it going through downloading all my bought items again and they still aren't showing up.

I've tried everything I could think of: Uninstalling and re-installing the game, deleting all my downloads and re-downloading them, backing up any Mods I had and deleting them from the game location on my computer and still nothing.

Any CC I have will work, but the items I bought through the Official Sims 3 store isn't showing up/installing to the game.

Is there any way to fix this?

P.S. I did update everything that needed to be updated (game/launcher/etc). Sims 3 games I own are: sims 3 Base Game, Fast lane, High End Loft, Ambitions, World Adventures, Late Night, showtime. All are up to date.

I just made a topic about this. So, I'm having the same problem. Only I started from absolute scratch this morning. (No 3rd party CC/mods at all, downloading & installing through Origin). Thanks for going into detail about this like you did.

I had this exact problem about two weeks ago. It was driving me absolutely mad -- I'd download and install the items. The launcher and/or the store would say they were installed, but they'd never show up in game.

As it turned out, I had not yet registered my most recent Stuff Pack with EA. As soon as I registered it, the problem was resolved and I could once again install store content (and have it stay installed).

You can check which of your expansions and stuff packs you've registered from your profile page (click your name link at the upper left) -- from there, scroll down to the bottom of the left-hand side where they list all the stuff you've registered. I just compared the listing there with the one at the bottom left of the launcher and found the EA profile listed 9 things, and my launcher listed 10, so hunted for the one that hadn't been registered yet.

I had this exact problem about two weeks ago. It was driving me absolutely mad -- I'd download and install the items. The launcher and/or the store would say they were installed, but they'd never show up in game.

As it turned out, I had not yet registered my most recent Stuff Pack with EA. As soon as I registered it, the problem was resolved and I could once again install store content (and have it stay installed).

You can check which of your expansions and stuff packs you've registered from your profile page (click your name link at the upper left) -- from there, scroll down to the bottom of the left-hand side where they list all the stuff you've registered. I just compared the listing there with the one at the bottom left of the launcher and found the EA profile listed 9 things, and my launcher listed 10, so hunted for the one that hadn't been registered yet.

I had it working 2 days ago. The CC still showed up as un-installed in the launcher but it was in the game when I played. Decided to try and add a few for items from Thesimsresource.com, started up the game and its doing it all over again.

Went into my Downloads folder in the Sims 3 file and deleted some of the new stuff I put it and its still not working. This game is really working my last nerve. I'm about to just uninstall it and give up on EA games over all.

I'm having the exact same problem with store items/worlds after uninstalling en re-installing the game after some time. I have the base game only. My game and launcher are both updated and my game is registered on the website. Here's what happens to me:

- The files show up in my "downloads" list.
- I install them, they successfully install and then appear in the "installed content" list.
- When I start the game they're not there
- When I restart the launcher the list of "installed content" is empty and the "downloads" list says nothing is installed once more.

As ChelleB24 already said, custom content does stay, it's just the store content that doesn't. I hope someone comes up with a solution or I might have to re-install the game again and only replace my save games or something, I don't know.

EDIT: I've followed the steps in the link above and the store content stays now! Just follow these steps and I hope it works for you too!

Beljora wrote:Okay, I've tried clearing my caches and getting rid of my mods in the past... but one thing I hadn't tried is letting the game remake my Sims 3 folder in Documents completely from scratch as suggested in the link above... And it turns out that did the trick.

Before, when uninstalling the game, it would ask if I wanted to keep saved data/setting, and, naturally, I said yes since I did not want to lose those things. As it turns out, that was the problem as it's apparent now that something was corrupt in the Sims 3 folder that was being carried over to the new install.

Onyxthegreat wrote:I'm having the exact same problem with store items/worlds after uninstalling en re-installing the game after some time. I have the base game only. My game and launcher are both updated and my game is registered on the website. Here's what happens to me:

- The files show up in my "downloads" list.
- I install them, they successfully install and then appear in the "installed content" list.
- When I start the game they're not there
- When I restart the launcher the list of "installed content" is empty and the "downloads" list says nothing is installed once more.

As ChelleB24 already said, custom content does stay, it's just the store content that doesn't. I hope someone comes up with a solution or I might have to re-install the game again and only replace my save games or something, I don't know.

EDIT: I've followed the steps in the link above and the store content stays now! Just follow these steps and I hope it works for you too!

Beljora wrote:Okay, I've tried clearing my caches and getting rid of my mods in the past... but one thing I hadn't tried is letting the game remake my Sims 3 folder in Documents completely from scratch as suggested in the link above... And it turns out that did the trick.

Before, when uninstalling the game, it would ask if I wanted to keep saved data/setting, and, naturally, I said yes since I did not want to lose those things. As it turns out, that was the problem as it's apparent now that something was corrupt in the Sims 3 folder that was being carried over to the new install.